Thread: transmission conversion discovery 2 td5

i recently had a failure of my transmition an auto zf in my td5 2002 discovery. after deciding that i dident want to pay good money to fix my auto, i decided that i would convert my auto to a 5 speed manual. basicly hear is why,

good points.
- one extra speed
-can be held in a higher gear and dosent kick down. to build boost (good for diesel)
-no unwanted shifting up when hill decending off road ( eg shifts hard up with lerch when in low range)
-the computer will not tell me that it has to be in safe mode when im in the desert.
-less parts i hope means lasts longer (depending on how i treat it)
-able to do key starts on hill and crawl with more wheel torque at slow speeds.

bad bits.
-dosent shift up hill in the mud.
-now have to use 2 feet to drive.
-dont have transmition cooler
-mud in flywheel problems when sinking
-possible to grind gears when shifting.
-cost of clutch maintance.

after considering all the above, i have decided to have the conversion done, mainly because i dont want to **** around with a computer and default safty modes, second, i like that i can stay in 4th gear up a hill and let the revs fall down abit, my engine dosent have any power at 4000 rpm when it kicks down, i would prefer it to stay at around 3k when loaded up, the diesel likes that range. but my auto would always shift when i dident want it to.

and probably last of all, i prefer manual as a transmition because im a truck driver.

cost, for the conversion alone, drive in and out 5000 for used parts. not bad rilly say 2k for the r380 then 1k for clutch pedals bell h and cables and computer, and 2k for labor, its not rill alot of money for all the value,

secondly i paid 1150 for a brand new fly wheel and clutch. and 820 for transport round trip. so the total will be $7000 or 6150 for all the work.

i have also asked for a new engine main seal to be put in and new seals on the transmition.

so the work will take a week and a week transport. so now im just biting my nales wating for it to come back.....

it was hard to find some one to take on the project , the local land rover deler in canberra would not have a bar of it. alturnitivly a delaler in melbourne offerd to do it but had never done one.

after i called trimph rover spairs in adalade the shop forman had said that they had done them before so i was confadent he was the right shop. hence the transport fee (toll transport )

One other option to consider (unless of course you just want a manual to play with) before committing to the manual is to upgrade the auto to HP24 internals. I have just had a "special" HP22 with 24 internals built and fitted to my D2, along with a much bigger cooler, by A&B Automotive Remanufacturing in South Dandenong, and am very happy with it. The original box did not cope well with the extra torque of the 4.6 towing our 2.7 tonne caravan, but this box is sweet. Currently at Tibooburra after a thousand km of back country roads and station tracks, with lots of sand, mud, rocks and corrugations with the van, and it stays cool and works very well.